Why Tenebrae
Tenebrae is Latin for darkness. It is also the name of an old Holy Week service in which candles are put out one by one until the church is left in shadow. Our stories begin in that kind of darkness: a lost week, a locked vault, a voice on a radio, a body nobody can name. The keyhole in our logo is the point of the exercise. We look through it carefully, and we tell you what we can see.
Evidence before atmosphere
A good mystery deserves careful reporting. We separate documented fact from attributed claim and from open question, and an intriguing theory is never treated as proof. Where the record is thin we say so, and where a story has grown in the retelling we trace how.
How we publish
Every case file lists its sources. AI may assist with research and drafting; an editor checks the claims and approves publication. Corrections are made in the case file itself, with a date and an explanation.
Artwork
Our illustrations are editorial interpretations in a mid-century print style. They are not photographs or reconstructions of evidence.